Warlock

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The Gentlemen should go close to 70 million worldwide after this weekend. Not bad considering it cost 22 million and is still going reasonably strong. I think it should hit 80 million before the end of its box office run.

Anyone have a weekend prediction for The Gentlemen? I have seen 3m, but that seems a little low?

The Gentlemen is adding about 500 theatres this weekend. So look for a minimal drop, it could be surprising. It is a good sign that the word of mouth is decent and will bring more bums into seats. The film will pass $20m domestic and $50m WW this weekend. I wonder where it will end up though, I'm hoping it has a decent multiple so I can see a sequel with The Coach and Fletcher. This was from Deadline "At $11M, STX is content with the results of Miramax’s The Gentlemen which they acquired U.S. rights on for $7M and spent around $25M in P&A. Rival sources mostly agree that STX will be fine profit-wise as the pic is your run-of-the-mill meat-and-potatoes low budget action film for dudes in January and those movies do well in the ancillary market."

FYI Some light reading for you. Marcuse's Cultural Marxism, Postmodernist Critical Theory, Relative Constructivism, Pareto principle, Arrow's liberal paradox and 20th Century History of communism.

I don't mind there being representation of groups other than straight white males, whatever. I just don't like it being at the expense of everything else, including a good plot, a coherent narrative and character development that is consistent with world building rules concerned, along with decent dialogue. Is that so hard? Because currently it seems to be. The SW Disney trilogy being an easy example of the aforementioned. Movies like Alien, Ex-machina, Kill Bill, Wonder Woman, Little Women, City of God, Hanna, Get out, Blade etc. All of which I enjoyed, are actually good films and the protagonists work well in the storyline which makes sense. Just to name a few off the top of my head.

I agree and said the same earlier in this thread. Watch this space over the next few years. I predict ridiculous shoehorning of "progressive" socialist politics into Disney movies because they actually think it's trendy/cool to virtue signal, and since MCU are the gold standard at the box office and the biggest draw card, they will suffer first and the hardest.

I watched The Gentlemen on the weekend and enjoyed it immensely. I'm also a big fan of Ritchie's Snatch, and Lock, stock and two smoking barrels. I can see this being a movie people either love or hate. If you are someone with sensitive sensibilities and get offended at just about everything, you definitely will not enjoy it and you should probably skip it for everyone's benefit. Hugh Grant was fantastic, as was Colin Farrell, who was also excellent in "In Bruges" back in 2008. Charlie Hunnam was unexpectedly good imo, but as he is mixing with some of these names it makes perfect sense and he was seamless. I'd watch an entire movie about Farrel's character "The coach". Hopefully it gets a sequel.

These people seem insane: outrage junkies with massive narcissistic personality disorders and a persecution complex that regularly crosses the line into moral policing and virtue signalling. Just my two cents.

I hear what you are saying about Scorsese, I do and I agree. But making a film like The Joker, in 2019s Hollywood, is kind of groundbreaking and bucking trends. Hence why it did so well at the box office, plus of course due to Joaqim Phoenix, who is a bloody good actor.

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Marvel and the MCU has reached peak box office success with Avengers and will now slowly descend into the abyss of superhero mediocrity, wishing they were still in the halcyon days of 2019. You heard it here first. Come at me bros!

So best case scenario there still puts RoS's final domestic tally $15m behind Rogue One's $532m. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3748528/?ref_=bo_se_r_1

Jumanji is looking more and more likely to pass Hobbs and Shaw's Worldwide gross. $800m worldwide may still be within reach.

Frozen 2 is a beast. LW is also doing well. I am looking forward to 1917, and The Gentlemen because Guy Ritchie.